Segment originally aired Nov. 26, 2011 on the “Dave’s Gone By” radio program hosted by Dave Lefkowitz.
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Here is the 368th episode of the long-running radio show/podcast, Dave’s Gone By, which aired on UNC Radio, Nov. 26, 2011. Info: davesgoneby.com.
Host: Dave Lefkowitz Guest: Peter Schickele
Featuring: Rabbi Sol Solomon chats with musicolologist Peter Schickele and offers his Rabbinical Reflection on his own stage show, Shalom Dammit!. Plus: Bob Dylan – Sooner & Later (classical music), Inside Broadway, Book Reviews (Patti Smith & Bob Mould), Saturday Segue (shopping).
00:00:01 DAVE GOES IN 00:37:30 INSIDE BROADWAY – News 00:50:00 DAVE’S GONE CULTURAL – Book Reviews (Patti Smith (00:50:30) & Bob Mould (01:01:30)) 01:24:00 GUESTS: Rabbi Sol Solomon interviews Peter Schickele 02:19:30 Sponsors 02:27:30 BOB DYLAN – Sooner & Later (classical music) 02:53:00 Friends 03:09:00 RABBI SOL SOLOMON’S RABBINICAL REFLECTION on Questions about his stage show 03:14:30 DAVE GOES OUT
Nov. 26, 2011 Playlist: “Window Shopping” (00:14:30; Hank Williams). “Window Shopping” (00:17:00; Lisa Loeb). “Shopping” (00:20:00; Pet Shop Boys). “Shopping” (00:23:30; The Jam); “Shopping” (00:27:00; Barenaked Ladies). “Shoppin’ for Clothes” (00:30:00; The Coasters). “Shop Around” (00:33:00; Smokey Robinson & the Miracles). “Bonnie and Clyde” (00:40:30; Serge Gainsbourg & Brigitte Bardot). “See a Little Light” (01:05:00; Bob Mould). “Fuga Meshuga” (01:21:30), “Howdy There” (from “Oedipus Tex”) (01:50:30) & “Iphigenia in Brooklyn” (02:08:00) & “Love Me” (Peter Schickele/P.D.Q. Bach; 03:16:30). “Saigon Bride” (01:36:00; Joan Baez). “Tombstone Blues” (live; 02:30:00), “Hard Times in New York Town” (Witmark demo version; 02:34:00), “Stuck Inside of Mobile with the Memphis Blues Again” (“No Direction Home” version; 02:36:00), “Handy Dandy” (02:42:00) & “If Dogs Run Free” (Bob Dylan; 02:46:00). “You’ve Got Possibilities” (02:55:00; Linda Lavin). “Wedding Vows” (Karon Blackwell; 03:03:30).
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RABBI SOL SOLOMON’S RABBINICAL REFLECTION #29 (11/13/2011): Shalom Dammit! Live
Aired Nov. 12, 2011 on Dave’s Gone By. Youtube clip: Shalom Dammit! Live
Shalom Dammit! This is Rabbi Sol Solomon with a Rabbinical Reflection for the week of November 13th, 2011.
I would like to invite you all to my show, Shalom Dammit! an Evening with Rabbi Sol Solomon, which is getting a workshop production next week at the University of Northern Colorado. We call it a “workshop” production because then it doesn’t have to be any good. If it IS good, mazel tov, tell your neighbors; if it stinks, hey, it’s a workshop; we’ll fix it when we get to New York.
Shalom Dammit! is a one-man, two-person show with comedy, music and a lot of yelling. It’s my sermon on the joys and tribulations of American-Jewish life in the twenty-first century. I’ll teach the audience some words in Hebrew and Yiddish, I’ll talk about different religions and how each one is more meshuggeh than the next, I will delve into the reasons Israel has endured 60 peaceless years with her Arab neighbors, and I will touch on such touchy topics as the Holocaust, anti-Semitism, assimilation, alienation, and Barbra Streisand.
There’ll be music, courtesy of my keyboardist, David San Miguel, a nice, churchgoing boy – I know, I know, but YOU find a Jewish piano player in Greeley Colorado. And there’ll even be a question-and-answer session with members of the audience who will have a once-in-a-lunchtime opportunity to “Ask the Rabbi.” Of course, this being the great plains, I’m sure the first question will be, “What’s a Rabbi?” But we’ll cross that cross when we come to it.
And speaking of questions, you might be asking why you should bother to come see me in person if you can hear me every week on the radio? The answer is…well, I don’t really have an answer to that, but I will say tickets are free, so there’s incentive right there. Also, there’s a shape to Shalom Dammit!, an arc that takes two-plus hours to mold, contextualize and present as a unified entertainment. In other words, it’s free – so what the hell do you have to lose?
Shalom Dammit! An Evening with Rabbi Sol Solomon plays November 21st and 22nd, the Monday and Tuesday of Thanksgiving week, at the Norton Theater of the University of Northern Colorado. Seating is first-come, first-disturbed. On both nights doors open at 6:30 for the 7 o’clock show.
For more information, visit ShalomDammit.com. Don’t bother calling the University, they’re trying to keep as low a profile on this as they possibly can. Just come to the Norton Theater, Tenth Avenue near 19th Street, and prepare to be challenged, tickled and surprised. And that’s just by the coeds in the sororities across the street, heh heh. But don’t bring the kids! Because of language and content, my show is not suitable for children. Or anyone really, but by God, I’m doing it anyway.
Who knows? In a year or two I could be on Broadway charging $150 for tickets. I won’t get it, but I could charge it. So see my show now, November 21st and 22nd at UNC, and be Solomized.
This has been a Rabbinical Reflection from Rabbi Sol Solomon, Temple Sons of Bitches. Unwrap your candies now.
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Here is the 367th episode of the long-running radio show/podcast, Dave’s Gone By, which aired on UNC Radio, Nov. 12, 2011. Info: davesgoneby.com.
Host: Dave Lefkowitz
Guest: Marty Allen
Featuring: Dave chats with veteran comedian Marty Allen. Plus: Inside Broadway (Man & Boy), Rabbi Sol Solomon’s Rabbinical Reflection (on Shalom Dammit! live), Saturday Segue (coaches) & Bob Dylan – Sooner & Later (covers).
Note: Marty Allen passed Feb. 12, 2018.
00:00:01 DAVE GOES IN 00:35:00 INSIDE BROADWAY (news (00:35:00); Man and Boy (00:54:00) 01:11:00 GUEST: Marty Allen 01:55:00 Sponsors 02:04:30 BOB DYLAN – Sooner & Later: covers 02:45:30 Rabbi Sol Solomon’s Rabbinical Reflection on Shalom Dammit! live 02:51:00 Dave Goes Off – A Sound Opinion on Tom Waits 03:04:00 Friends 03:09:00 DAVE GOES OUT
Nov. 12, 2011 Playlist: “Coney Island Baby” (00:13:30; Lou Reed); “There’s a Coach Comin’ In” (00:20:00; Paint Your Wagon 1951 Broadway cast); “Mystery Train” (00:22:00; Neil Young); “Earache My Eye” (00:24:30; Alice Bowie/Cheech & Chong); “Centerfield” (00:27:00; John Fogarty); “Venus in Furs” (00:48:00; Velvet Underground); “The Punch-Drunk Fighter” (01:07:30) & “The Golf Pro/Let’s Face the Music and Dance” (01:49:00; Allen & Rossi); “Love is a Four Letter Word” (02:07:30; Joan Baez); “Seven Days” (02:12:00; Ron Wood); “Stuck Inside of Mobile with the Memphis Blues Again” (Cat Power; 02:17:00); “Can’t Leave Her Behind” (stephen Malkmus & Lee Ranaldo; 02:24:00); “What Good Am I” (02:26:00; Barb Jungr); “Chimes of Freedom” (02:30:00; The Byrds); “I’m Still Here” (02:49:30; Tom Waits).
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Segment originally aired Nov. 12, 2011 on the “Dave’s Gone By” radio program hosted by Dave Lefkowitz.
Sad Note: Our Friend of the Daverhood, Marty Allen, passed Feb. 12, 2018 at age 95.
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Topics include: Adolph Green, Subways are for Sleeping, Bells are Ringing, theater, Broadway.
Segment originally aired Nov. 5, 2011 on the “Dave’s Gone By” radio program hosted by Dave Lefkowitz.
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Dave Lefkowitz interviews Dawes band bass player Wylie Gelber
Topics include: Dawes, music.
Segment originally aired Nov. 5, 2011 on the “Dave’s Gone By” radio program hosted by Dave Lefkowitz.
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Featuring: Dave chats with two-time Tony-winning actress Phyllis Newman and with Wylie Gelber, bass player for the roots band, Dawes Plus: Inside Broadway (reviews of The Judy Show & Voca People), Saturday Segue (time changes), Bob Dylan – Sooner & Later (times a-changin’), and Rabbi Sol Solomon’s Rabbinical Reflection on the Kardashian divorce.
Note: An audio glitch glitch towards the one-hour mark rendered about five minutes of the program unrecorded but did not affect the rest of the broadcast or audio archiving.
Note: Phyllis Newman passed Sept. 15, 2019.
00:00:01 DAVE GOES IN 00:08:00 Dave on Dawes 00:25:30 DAVE GOES OFF on Daylight Savings Time 00:29:00 SATURDAY SEGUE: time changes 00:53:30 GUEST: Phyllis Newman 01:19:00 AD: Shalom Dammit – An Evening with Rabbi Sol Solomon 01:21:00 INSIDE BROADWAY (news (01:21:30), The Judy Show (01:27:00) & Voca People (01:30:00) 01:49:00 GUEST: Wylie Gelber 02:20:00 Sponsors 02:23:30 Rabbi Sol Solomon’s Rabbinical Reflection on the Kardashian divorce 02:27:00 Friends 02:32:00 Bob Dylan – Sooner & Later (times a-Changin’) 02:46:00 DAVE GOES OUT w/ Joyce Weil
Nov. 5, 2011 Playlist: “My Girl to Me” (00:16:00), “Time Spent in Los Angeles” (01:37:00), “The Way You Laugh” (01:41:30), “Come Back to a Man” (01:45:00), “How Far We’ve Come” (02:13:30) & “When My Time Comes” (02:54:00; Dawes); “Time to Ring Some Changes” (live) (00:29:30; Richard Thompson); “Turning Time Around” (00:32:30; Lou Reed); “Beat the Time” (Edie Brickell & New Bohemians; 00:37:00); “Time Precious Time” (00:40:00; Lindsey BUckingham); “Who Knows Where the Time Goes” (00:44:00; Eva Cassidy); “What’s New at the Zoo” (00:50:00; Do Re Mi 1999 off-Broadway cast); “Casual” (01:16:00; Julius LaRose & Phyllis Newman); “Black Crow Blues” (02:32:30), “Where are You Tonight (Journey Through Dark Heat)” (02:35:00) & “Highlands” (excerpt, 02:42:00; Bob Dylan).
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Shalom Dammit, this is Rabbi Sol Solomon with a Rabbinical Reflection for the week of October 30th, 2011.
Well, winter has come to Greeley, USA. It’s only the end of October, but this is Colorado, so of course, we get snow before Halloween. Who knows? Maybe by Lincoln’s Birthday we’ll have beach weather.
But this being the first snowstorm of the season, all gehenna breaks loose. You’d think Northern Colorado had never seen snow before. It’s one thing when Florida gets a dusting, and cars go sliding across the road – mostly Jews leaving the dinner buffet to get home before noon.
And in the northeast, the TV weatherpeople go berserk. “First winter blast! Mothers ambushing the supermarket! Buy rocksalt, find your candles, don’t park your car on alternate sides of the street Tuesdays, Thursdays and every fifth Sunday when there’s a full moon and Jupiter is rising in the guest house of Saturn!” Two inches of snow, and you’d think polar bears were threatening to galumph down Fifth Avenue.
But Colorado? Without snow, the only thing Vail would be known for is Walgreens and syphilis. You don’t need Nostradamus to predict that an early season storm will dump white stuff on trees, roads, backyards, powerlines. Snow and Colorado go together like borscht and sour cream. Like David and Bathsheba. Like Pakistan and duplicity.
So why does it take two and a half days for Xcel Energy to get the lights back on? Did they not glance at a weathermap a week before the storm? Monks in Bangladesh knew there would be blizzard in Colorado before the local energy company did. Honest to God, Swami Poopoopadoola in Rangpur was on the Weather Channel a week ago saying, “Ganesh advises you should hire extra tree-removal crews – and I don’t even know what snow is.”
And so, for the past three days of my visit to Greeley, I have lived without light, heat and hot water. Which is why I smell like a giraffe in a sweat lodge. If I want to get warm, I have to crawl into the refrigerator. There’s no television, so I have to engage with these big, unwieldy black-and-white things our ancestors once called “books.” And there is no internet, so I can’t spend my usual afternoons downloading doctored nude photos of Mayim Bialik.
Now the more rugged among us would hail this return to an older way of life. How good it is, they would say, to be disconnected from intolerable inboxes, cacophonous commercials and the twaddle of Twitter tweets. Enjoy the silence, reflect and recharge. Breathe.
I can’t breathe, I’m Jewish! I’m lucky if I can groan and wheeze. I want my MTV! I miss my spam! I can’t build a cozy fire without getting splinters in my groin.
It may be sad, but technology is here to stay, so when it is taken from us, however briefly, the loss feels like a phantom limb. From Thomas Edison to Steve Jobs, we have been blessed by people who have made our lives so convenient, we can no longer endure inconvenience. If that means we’re spoiled, so be it.
And now, speaking of spoiled, there’s a kosher flank steak in my freezer that needs to be handled with rubber gloves and a gas mask.
This has been a Rabbinical Reflection from Rabbi Sol Solomon, Temple Sons of Bitches. (sings) “Walking in a winter wonderland…dammit.”
Dave Lefkowitz interviews singer-songwriter Pieta Brown
Topics include: music, Mercury, Greg Brown.
Segment originally aired Oct. 29, 2011 on the “Dave’s Gone By” radio program hosted by Dave Lefkowitz.
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